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Access to finance: a functional approach to supply and demand

Fischer, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial access surveys, which involves asking detailed questions about how respondents meet their...

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Modernisation and son preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household … in intra-household allocation. Spending on health is found to be biased against young girls in the poor but not in the … household spending were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolment outcomes as revealed in census data for …

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Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

We analyse self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household …

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The impact of inheritance on the distribution of wealth: evidence from the UK

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

inequality. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey we find that the period 1995-2005 was a period of substantial … household wealth accumulation that occurred during 1995-2005 and somewhere between 26 and 30 per cent of the wealth accumulation …

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Looking ahead: subjective time perception and individual discounting

Bradford, W. David; Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Time discounting is at the heart of economic decision-making. We disentangle hyperbolic discounting from subjective time perception using experimental data from incentive-compatible tests to measure time preferences, and a set of experimental tasks to measure time perception. The two behavioural...

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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior

González, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...

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Recent trends in the size and the distribution of inherited wealth in the UK

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper we document the evolution of the annual flow of inheritances in the UK during the period 1984-2005 and provide estimates for the overall magnitude and the distribution of inherited wealth. Our results indicate that the period under examination the annual flow of inheritance...

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Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland

Bargain, Olivier; González, Libertad; Keane, Claire; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

driven by selection and are robust to several specification checks, including the introduction of household fixed effects and …

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Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb

Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Gregory; Schoar, Antoinette - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...

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Homeownerhip and entrepreneurship

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and constructing a detailed monthly-spell dataset that tracks individuals‟ job history and tenure …

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